Smart mobility in smart cities

Resumen

Análisis de actuaciones de movilidad inteligente en las ciudades pertenecientes a la Red Española de Ciudades Inteligentes (RECI).
Cities are currently undergoing a transformation into the Smart concept, like Smartphones
or SmartTV. Many initiatives are being developed in the framework of the Smart Cities
projects, however, there is a lack of consistent indicators and methodologies to assess,
finance, prioritize and implement this kind of projects. Smart Cities projects are classified
according to six axes: Government, Mobility, Environment, Economy, People and Living.
(Giffinger, 2007)
The main objective of this research is to develop an evaluation model in relation to the
mobility concept as one of the six axes of the Smart City classification and apply it to the
Spanish cities. The evaluation was carried out in the 62 cities that made up in September
2015 the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI- Red Española de Ciudades Inteligentes).
This research is part of a larger project about Smart Cities’ evaluation (+CITIES), the project
evaluates RECI’s cities in all the axes.
The analysis was carried out taking into account sociodemographic indicators such as the
size of the city or the municipal budget per inhabitant. The mobility’s evaluation in those
cities has been focused in: sustainability mobility urban plans and measures to reduce the
number of vehicles. The 62 cities from the RECI have been evaluated according to their
degree of progress in several Smart Cities’ initiatives related to smart mobility. The applied
methodology has been specifically made for this project. The grading scale has different
ranks depending on the deployment level of smart cities’ initiatives.